The red-and-white president discussed the influence of football on the economic development of a city

Athletic Club wanted to be present in a fundamental week for Miranda, who dreams of the return of his club to the second category of professional football. President Aitor Elizegi has participated in the third meeting of ‘Miranda, football and city’, in which he has transported to eighty participants our project, with the Athletic Fundazioa as flag. Among them, there were important businessmen of the region. He has addressed the influence that football has on the economic development of a city.

Remembering the magnificent semi-final Cup against Mirandés in 2012, in which there was “capacity to act as hosts, both in Bilbao and Miranda”, he highlighted that football serves “to unite consciences, messages and cities”. “We have to put the Athletic Club shirt on more people than those who get it,” he said in reference to all the kids and their families who fight for years to get to the first team.

Elizegi, who exchanged a shirt signed by the first team with the president of Mirandés, Alfredo de Miguel, gave a detail to the mayor of the town, Aitana Hernando, in the presence of the former president of Deportivo Alavés, Gonzalo Antón, and the artist Darío Urzay, author of the shirt created in 2004, inspired by a painting. The mayor received a replica of San Mamés. “You have to be a little bit better each year,” Elizegi launched as a way to follow in his farewell.